Day 25

We then had a nice lunch on Passeo de Recoletos, a wide treed area with side walk cafes where Spain’s famous authors often meet to talk. There was an artist painting our lunch scene. We didn’t stay to see the finished painting. Next to the Navel museum that was unfortunately closed so we went back to the Park again as Mark had no interest in going to the Prada, the last big art museum on our to-do list. Paul and I took turns going to the Prada while the other watched Mark in the park. There was an artist painting pictures with spray paint in the park that had Mark captivated. He would paint very elaborate scenes on a paper in about 5 minutes. Then right on to the next one. He would get about six done and take a break to sell them. Then he would repeat the whole process.

The Prada was filled with whole galleries of masterpieces rather than one or two famous works mixed with lesser known artists. It was quite amazing even though renaissance art isn’t my favorite.

We went back to our favorite Tapas bar for one last time for dinner and then to the train station for our overnight train to Bordeaux. We were in a sleeper car with 6 berths. The other three were filled with young English speaking men about John’s age. They were very nice and didn’t complain about Suzy’s snoring. It was really hot in the train and the kids partied in the hall for quite awhile into the night so we did not get much sleep, other than Mark who can sleep through anything. SKC

written by  pscossette on July 12, 2007 from Madrid, Spain
from the travel blog: The Cossette Family Sabbatical
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